Another Thin Man (1939)
Myrna Loy: Nora
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Quotes
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Nora Charles : How did you know I was here?
Nick Charles : I saw a great group of men standing around a table. I knew there was only one woman in the world who could attract men like that - a woman with a lot of money.
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Nora Charles : [Reading phone messages] Here's another one of those "Call Long Island Operator #15." Don't you think you ought to call her?
Nick Charles : Certainly not; she knows better than that! I told her I was bringing the wife along this time.
Nora Charles : I don't know why I always take it for granted that you're kidding.
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Nora Charles : I got rid of all those reporters.
Nick Charles : What did you tell them?
Nora Charles : I told them we were out of scotch.
Nick Charles : What a gruesome thought!
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Nick Charles : [Nick finds Nora at a table surrounded by a crowd of suitors] Now Mommy, you know better than to come to place like this, your first day out of bed. What if the health officers find out? They'll put you right back in quarantine.
Nora Charles : I won't stay in quarantine! I don't care who catches it.
[the suitors quickly leave]
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Nora Charles : It wasn't his fault. Nick smells like a dog. I mean, he smells like Asta.
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Nora Charles : I have a husband, you know.
Gigolo Who Danced with Nora Charles at West Indies Club : A stupid American iceberg! Huh?
Nora Charles : No. He's traveled abroad.
Gigolo Who Danced with Nora Charles at West Indies Club : Oh, does he ever speak to you burning words that make you go half mad with joy and yearning?
Nora Charles : Well, he's kinda cute.
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Nora Charles : You're suspicious of everything.
Nick Charles : Well, I hate to wake up some morning and find the fortune I married you for was gone.
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'Creeps' Binder : Nick sent me up the river.
Nora Charles : It's nice you don't feel bad about it.
'Creeps' Binder : Why should I? Gee! It took a genius to outsmart me.
Nick Charles : You wanna touch me?
Nora Charles : Really, Creeps, you shouldn't run him down like that.
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[last lines]
Nick Charles : Let's sit down.
Nora Charles : Sit down? What for?
Nick Charles : Just to get a little rest after our quiet weekend in the country.
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State Trooper : Listen, we're not dishin' the dirt on your husband for the fun of it. We're tryin' to show you what you're up against. It ain't in the books that a man that's had that many numbers would settle down to one.
Nora Charles : Was he really like that?
State Trooper : Was he! Oh, baby!
Nora Charles : I always thought he was bragging.
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Nora Charles : [Talking on the phone] Oh, we had a lovely trip. Nick was sober in Kansas City.
Nick Charles : [Talking to a stuffed Panda bear] That's a very bitter woman.
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'Creeps' Binder : [Dressed as a bellboy] Are you the party that wanted the passkey?
Nora Charles : Party? I'm more like a riot!
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Detective : It seems to me, Mrs. Charles, that every time your husband gets in with a girl, the insurance companies take an awful beatin'. Now, it's nice, very nice, for a wife to trust her husband, but, get this, there's that Wynant girl he knew before he was married. He comes here to New York and, bing, there's a murder. He goes back to the West coast, there's a good lookin' girl there and,l bing, there's another murder. He comes back here, meets this Lois MacFay and...
Nora Charles : Bing - Bing - Bing! There's another murder.
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Nick Charles : Madame, how long have you been leading this double life?
Nora Charles : Just since we've been married.
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Nick Charles : I'd like to go in there by myself.
Nora Charles : You go everywhere alone. I'd like to have some fun too!
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State Trooper : Listen, we're not dishin' the dirt on your husband for the fun of it. We're trying to show you what you're up against. It ain't in the books that a man that's had that many numbers would settle down to one.
Nora Charles : Was he really like that?
State Trooper : Was he? Oh baby.
Nora Charles : I always thought he was bragging.
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Policeman in Charles' Suite : And the lighthouse keeper's daughter in a...
Nora Charles : The what?
Policeman in Charles' Suite : The lighthouse keeper's daughter.
Nora Charles : What was her name?
State Trooper : What it all comes down to is this Lois. You're wrong to think there could be anything between them. They're just making a monkey out of you. Covering up for them.
Nora Charles : I'm sure you're right, uh, but what was the lighthouse keeper's daughter's name?
Policeman in Charles' Suite : Letty Finhaden.
Nora Charles : Letty Finhaden?
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Colonel MacFay : The man means to kill me, and I'm asking Mr. Charles not to let him do it. That's simple enough, isn't it? Even for Mr. Charles.
Nora Charles : No.
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Nick Charles : You know, she wouldn't be a bad looker if she took her specs off.
Nora Charles : I'll speak to her.
Nick Charles : Oh, don't get her hopes up.
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Nora Charles : Give me fourteen dollars and seventy-five cents.
Nick Charles : Fourteen dollars and seventy-five cents? What for?
Nora Charles : Men.
Nick Charles : Another one?
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Nick Charles : You didn't have any money until I showed up.
Nora Charles : I was doing all right. I'd have gotten it.
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Nora Charles : [reading a report] Production of lumber seasonally adjusted. Good heavens, do you understand that?
Nick Charles : Oh, sure, sure. That's, uh... that's the indirect ratio between the sales depreciation and the unrealized inventory losses. Understand?
Nora Charles : Oh, yes.
Nick Charles : But, uh, naturally allowance has to be made for the major cyclical downswing. You, uh, get that of course?
Nora Charles : Naturally.
Nick Charles : Oh, do you? Of course, you have to have a degree of accuracy by a reference to a straight line correlation formula.
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Policeman in Charles' Suite : Did he ever tell you about the coal man's widow in Cleveland... that wanted to set him up into the agency for himself?
Nora Charles : Was that Jeanette?
Policeman in Charles' Suite : No. Her name was Bella Spruce.
Nora Charles : Bella Spruce?